NEW YORK – Coco Gauff’s first game since inviting someone to help her shaky game starts at the U.S. Open Tuesday night. She double-weared in the first game – 10 total. She was also broken in that game – six times in total.
Of course, the only numbers that really calculated were those on the Arthur Ashe Stadium scoreboard, which showed that the third seed Gauff kept 6-4, 6-7 (2), defeating Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5 to win the second round at Flushing Meadows.
“It’s not the best, but I’m glad I’m going to pass,” Goff said.
Nothing is easy to appear. Goff took two breaks in the second group but couldn’t end things. She rose 5-3 in the third round and won 5-4, but tortured twice in a row, missing a pair of forehands to make it a 5-shot.
That might be too much. Instead, Goff stabilized himself, broke immediately, and was able to stand out in a second chance nearly three hours after the game started.
“I have a lot of opportunities. … I’m like, ‘End of all, one of them will go my way.’
Gauff won the first of her two Grand Slam titles at the 2023 U.S. Junior Open. Macmillan, a biomechanical expert who helped now No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka remade her service a few years ago, sat in front of his mother in the first row of Gauff’s guest box.
After defeating Tomljanovic, Gauff used Macmillan to call her exercises “very difficult” and “mentally exhausted.”
“I’m trying to improve every game,” she said.
In short, Gauff’s problem is the tendency to accumulate double failures. Her 320 season in the U.S. Open was the most women’s tour this season, more than 100 more than anyone else. This includes 23 games in one game earlier this month, followed by 14 games in the next game.
On Tuesday, when she was working on the job of adjusting service movements, Goff began much slower than she could be striking. As the race progressed, the 21-year-old from Florida recovered her habitual speed, from an average of only 88 mph in the first set, and the second time it recovered her habitual speed at 97 mph, while in the third inning, Ashe’s retractable roof closed, at 101 mph on the third time. She increased one at 117 mph and even produced a second service.
Tomljanovic, who won the win with No. 79, is known for the Australians to beat Serena Williams at the 23rd U.S. Open in her career, is the model range of Gauff, the model of Gauff and a great backhand. Appropriately, a downline backhand conversion match point, Gauff waved over his head, making the crowd rile.
Even though Tomljanovic waved her forehand, it was Gauff who got a long exchange from the baseline.
She also performed well as she pushed forward, winning 12 of her 15 points ending online, including a jumping, surpassing, shoulder-to-back volleyball champion
It was Gauff’s first game since his first round exit at Wimbledon in July, a setback after her June title at the French Open.
As Gauff moves forward in Flushing Meadows, she has the potential to surpass Sabalenka and No. 2 Iga switek in the rankings and moves to No. 1 for the first time.
